Alaska Animal Babies

An irresistible entry to the Paws IV series, featuring full-color photos of baby animals and fun facts about each species. A natural history treat that entices animal lovers of all ages.

Pictured in their natural habitats are a wide range of young creatures, from arctic foxes and polar bears to Dall sheep and mountain goats. In all, 24 of Alaska’s wild and wonderful inhabitants are included. Brief but captivating descriptions introduce each animal, bringing them to life and familiarizing young audiences with their habits. Did readers know a gray wolf pup bumps his mother’s chin to get attention? Or that marmots flatten themselves against the ground when they sense danger?

“Breathtaking photos of babies in the wild. This gorgeous book will delight the little ones.” ~The Seattle Times

INSPIRED BY ALASKA

At age twenty-one, Deb Vanasse was dropped by a bush pilot on a gravel runway in middle of the Alaska wilderness. No roads, no houses, no cars, no people—only a winding brown slough and tundra spread flat as prairie. She had come not for adventure but to live, an isolating but evocative experience that has inspired much of her work, including her books about writing.

Between her mountain home and a glacier-based cabin, she continues to enjoy Alaska’s wild places.

Don’t tell…but Vanasse was raised in a mental institute.

Author Deb Vanassee at Denali

Her family lived on the grounds of the state mental institution where her dad worked. The staff consisted mostly of foreign doctors, so she grew up with children from around the world, always in the shadow of the sprawling hospital and patients who walked the grounds, each more or less in his own little world. Deb lived in her own little world much of the time too. Her favorite hangout was a shed attached to her family’s barracks-style cement block house, where she’d spend hours reading and imagining story worlds.

The Confessional

We asked & our authors answered…

Deb has been known to…buy way more books than she’ll ever read

Things Deb likes…chocolate, good books, an occasional movie, a good hot shower after a few days of camping, warm flannel sheets, wide open spaces, soft falling snow, her friends

She’ll never get caught…skydiving; she so doesn’t like heights

A favorite/line expression and where it’s from: “There’s a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen

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Description

Thirty-six years of living and traveling throughout Alaska has brought Vanasse up close and personal with many of Alaska’s most popular animals.

Adorable. Full of vivid images and surprising facts about the baby animals that make the Great Land great.

Sneaky Peek

Sea otter pups like to travel on their mother’s chests. Otters blow bubbles into their own fur, adding extra air to keep warm in Alaska’s chilly waters. When they fall asleep at sea, otters may grasp each other’s paws in the same way that we hold hands.